Trifecta of Green Team Events in September

Release date: 9/12/2017

Three Green Team events to make your September memorable.

The Ewing Green Team has plans for a busy month in town in September for those who wish to join us, have a great time, all the while greening your lifestyle. First up is our 3rd Annual Through the Garden Gate Tour showing off a sampling of the great gardens in town while promoting township wide beautification. We hope that you will join the tour and that every home you visit sings out loud and clear that a gardener lives there. Next, is our Ewing Fall Spin, being run in collaboration with the Township’s Community Fest celebration, in which we promote healthy lifestyles. This year we are riding for prostate cancer awareness and research in support of the American Cancer Society’s Run for Dad program. So join us and donate your registration fee to this great cause. And finally, we have a new offering from our Environmental Insights Series, our educational series in which we discuss critical environmental issues. “Principles of Ecology: What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know” is intended for the non-scientists among us with environmental concerns. This will be a great introduction to critical ecological issues and how what we do (or don't do) matters. Read on for details.

Through the Garden Gate Tour

The Ewing Green Team looks forward to welcoming you to our Through the Garden Gate Tour of great gardens in Ewing and its environs. This year’s tour, will be held the weekend of September 16th and 17th and will give the gardeners a chance to show off their gardens in late summer – a completely different look and one that can be a bit more challenging!

The Tour is a self-guided ticketed event and runs from 10am – 2pm. Some gardens will be open on Saturday only, while others will be open both days. Buy your ticket ($10) at the Ewing Historic Preservation Society, 27 Federal City Road, which features their kitchen garden.

Come early and celebrate with us as the winners of our first Annual Garden Contest are announced. Winners will be announced and receive their prizes beginning at 9:30am before the tour begins.

This third garden tour of Ewing is being run in partnership with the West Trenton Garden Club and Ewing Girl Scout Troop 70138 to promote our mutual causes of beautification, sustainability, and youth development. It is our belief that showcasing some of Ewing’s noteworthy gardens is a great way to help us engage more people in beautifying our town. A beautiful town elicits pride among its residents and helps to build community. We believe that it can all begin with one garden at a time.

Ewing Fall Spin

The Ewing Fall Spin, Ewing’s third Bike Tour organized to promote a more bikeable Ewing, will start and end at Campus Town at the College of New Jersey at 8am on Saturday September 23rd. Participants will ride out promptly at 8:30 to complete either an eight mile route for the casual rider or an 18 mile journey for the more experienced rider. Riders will have a police escort. The Ride registration fee is $20 until September 16th and $25 thereafter. All persons registering by September 16th will receive a T-shirt. Day-of-event registration will begin at 8:00am. Registration is limited to individuals or teams ages 18 or older.

The theme for this year’s ride is, “Bike Riding for a Healthier You.” September is Prostate Cancer Awareness Month, and all proceeds from the event will be donated to the American Cancer Society’s Run for Dad event in support of prostate cancer awareness and research.

Don’t forget after you have completed your ride, to head over to Ewing’s Community Festcelebration where you can meet your neighbors and enjoy a celebration of community in Ewing. Secure parking for your bike has been arranged.

Environmental Insights

Everyone thinks that they have a feel for what ecology is but few actually exactly know. Our newest Environmental Insights presentation, Principles of Ecology: What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know, on Wed., September 27th will give the non-scientists among us a basic, easy to digest explanation of the biology of ecology, what it is and what it is not. We will explore the fundamentals of ecosystems and the relationships of the organism that live in those ecosystems and the importance to mankind.

This is essential to a better understanding of the ecological damage that has been done to nature over the centuries and the continuing acceleration of this process. We will further explore this issue at our October Green Team meeting and learn how dedicated and heroic efforts are being made to reverse the damage and hopefully eventually learn to live in harmony with nature or suffer the consequences.

This series is being presented by Joseph-Mark Mirabella, retired Central Regional Supervisor for the NJDEP Hazardous Waste Enforcement program. He is a former Environmental Science Teacher and has taught and lectured on environmental issues at NJ Colleges for the last 35 years. He is currently Chair of the Ewing Environmental Commission.

Date: Wednesday, September 25thTime: 6:30pmLocation: ESCC, Community Room, 999 Lower Ferry RoadCost: Free and open to the public

We finish with a reminder not to forget that our 4th Annual Scarecrow Contest is once again scheduled for this October. This is your opportunity to demonstrate your recycling smarts and creativity and will ca$h while doing so. The judging and awarding of cash prizes of $100, $50 and $25 will be during Ewing’s Trunk or Treat Festival on Saturday, October 28th. For more information and to register, go to https://ewinggreenteam.org/scarecrow-contest/.

Date: Saturday, October 28th (RAIN DATE, Sunday, October 29th)Time: judging at 4 p.m.Location: Ewing Senior and Community Center [ESCC]Cost: free and open to all Ewing individuals, school groups, families, youth groups, service clubs and business groups

So join us at one or all events – at our Garden Tour to marvel at the efforts of your fellow citizens to beautify our town, for a healthy outing on our Bike Tour while raising money to support prostate cancer awareness and research, and our Environmental Insights program on ecology for a primer on the science of ecology to obtain a better understanding of the ecological damage that has been done to nature over the centuries and why and what we must do to reverse the damage.